It's not JUST a concept album, it's a concept discography. The story in this album directly follow from the ending of the previous one, and the transmision at the end is the set up for the next (just about to realease) album
This is easily my second favorite Gloryhammer song. Their epic from the new album is certainly worth checking out. It's called "maleficus geminus colossus matrix 38b - ultimate invocation of the binary thaumaturge" and it's incredibly epic.
Everything makes more and more sense about this band when you realize that they're an affectionate parody of power metal. Everything is just amplified to 11 intentionally. It's meant to be this goofy and awesome. I imagine they wrote the lyrics in a D&D session... "Hoots" though, that's a Scottish thing. Kind of like their version of shouting "hey!" but just a general exclamation. The entire setting of Gloryhammer's lore is Scotland.
Ahh Gloryhammer are awesome. Camp and cheesy but also comprehensive and well thought out enough that you can really get into the lore and story. I think you’ll enjoy the album and the previous two are useful for context, though not absolutely essential.
I introduced a friend to Gloryhammer by describing them as, "Imagine a bunch of 7-year-olds who are huge fans of fantasy and campy 80s/90s/early 2000s cartoons, all playing make-believe. The songs are about the utterly glorious, uninhibited nonsense they come up with."
FYI the story of this song continues in Eternal Warrior by Angus McSix. The singer was kicked out of the band, which went back in time with a new protagonist after this, while the singer made a new band to continue the adventures of his character
You went deep and meaningful with your interpretation of the title but it's literally just referring to the volcano Angus XIII jumped into. 😂😂😂 Chris's writing for Gloryhammer is highly inspired by the intermediate-level English of Rhapsody's classic lyrics, and so we end up with delicious camptastic lines like "into the battle the heroes make fight".
Bumped into your channel because Glory Hammer smashed into my ears looking for live music acts to attend. Until a week ago I'd never heard of them. Perhaps few will, as it is an uphill battle to storm the battlements of popular music. Glory Hammer reminds me of the thematic album by Yes keyboard player Rick Wakeman, who in 1973 created the concept album "The Six Wives of Henry the Eighth" and in 1975 "King Arthur and the Knights of the Roundtable". Back then these musical efforts while not wasted, weren't exactly popular. Glory Hammer and Rick Wakemam are of disimilar. However they share classical music and keyboard stylings and the fascination with fantastic historical mythology and gallantry. The music is performatively challenging, and the execution of it is something like a circus act. The machismo of these genres needs to be mocked in my opinion. The satirical control content is a delicate balance to achieve. This is in effect the Month Python of the Lord of the Rings. The heroes and villains can all be seem as fundamentally flawed and insecure human beings and metaphorically portray the drama of everyday life. Allegory. Humor. Musical form.
Power metal is one of those genres where I love a handful of what I consider the best bands in the genre (Helloween and Blind Guardian especially), but the rest becomes parody very quickly. Still, even at its worst it's usually fun just due to the speed and melodicism and intricacy of the instrumental work. This is too much towards the parodic/cheesy side to me without enough inspiration in its musical ideas to hold my attention strongly. Dio and Judas Priest (and Iron Maiden) were just classic heavy metal. They were the biggest inspirations for power metal. Most power metal took the melodicism and "epic" quality of those bands and increased the speed and aggression due to the influences of thrash, but without adopting thrash's rhythmic-dominated focus. They basically kept the "theatricality" of classic metal.
Dishes, driving, dying for the eternal glory of dundee lol This song is the last song of the album and I feel is better consumed as part of a whole album listen. I feel in context it hits better, but that’s a 40ish minute ask.
This actually made me sit here thinking for a few minutes on why I was rushing to the skip button so much. Because I do love epic camp in my metal and I have the many, many times I yelled "Bal Sagoth" in your comments section to prove it, and Bal Sagoth are not only where restraint goes to die but also very much an influence in this song's darker passages. Yet, I really *can't stand this*. And I think I figured why: there's a slight air of cynicism about this, a certain overeagerness to tell you that they are, in fact, a parody and don«t you ever forget it. And to me that falls flatter than bands like Rhapsody who fall into the trap of actually taking themselves way to seriously, or Bal Sagoth who know what they're creating is very silly and will smile and laugh with you, while still being really passionate about what they do. And so, at their best, they will carry you through fantastic mystical worlds and it's all very intentionally over the top and their booklets have 32 pages worth of actual short stories but it never lacks for passion in that storytelling within the actual music. That and the fact that the metal and the orchestrations are a part of the same ensemble and composed from scratch to be that way. This sounds like someone who loves wrestling "ironically" and just can't stop telling you how in on the joke and how it's all fake and predetermined and has to put some sort of * in every conversation to remind you that he's in on the joke. Whereas Bal Sagoth are forming a backyard wrestling thing and having genuine fun with it. Which is why I can't really get the epic feel here. It's self aware to the point of not being self aware.
@@CriticalReactions Something along those lines, yes. When you coat your genuine love for something silly or kitsch in so many layers of ironic appreciation, at some point you lose the ability to enjoy the kitsch thing for what it is or engage with it on its own merits.
It's not JUST a concept album, it's a concept discography. The story in this album directly follow from the ending of the previous one, and the transmision at the end is the set up for the next (just about to realease) album
Big Rhapsody vibes
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@@auxiliarycruiserDOUBLE. WIZARD.
"Missiles of nuclear justice!" is still one of my favorite lyrics in any song ever
This is easily my second favorite Gloryhammer song. Their epic from the new album is certainly worth checking out. It's called "maleficus geminus colossus matrix 38b - ultimate invocation of the binary thaumaturge" and it's incredibly epic.
Everything makes more and more sense about this band when you realize that they're an affectionate parody of power metal. Everything is just amplified to 11 intentionally. It's meant to be this goofy and awesome. I imagine they wrote the lyrics in a D&D session...
"Hoots" though, that's a Scottish thing. Kind of like their version of shouting "hey!" but just a general exclamation. The entire setting of Gloryhammer's lore is Scotland.
isn't them chanting hoots towards the hootsman?
@@neocharl Hail Hoots!
@@GeofreySandersmost certainly!
So the Latin chanting (Vanitati, Latinae, Canentis) translates to (Useless/Vain Latin Chanting)
In _The Siege of Dunkeld_ we also have "confutatis maledictus caledoniae" which I think is meant to be 'confusing Scottish curses'.
Ahh Gloryhammer are awesome. Camp and cheesy but also comprehensive and well thought out enough that you can really get into the lore and story.
I think you’ll enjoy the album and the previous two are useful for context, though not absolutely essential.
I introduced a friend to Gloryhammer by describing them as, "Imagine a bunch of 7-year-olds who are huge fans of fantasy and campy 80s/90s/early 2000s cartoons, all playing make-believe. The songs are about the utterly glorious, uninhibited nonsense they come up with."
people legitimally search obscure science stuff to make sense of some senseless lyrics, for example the liquid ice, apparently is real
FYI the story of this song continues in Eternal Warrior by Angus McSix. The singer was kicked out of the band, which went back in time with a new protagonist after this, while the singer made a new band to continue the adventures of his character
who's gonna tell him ?
You went deep and meaningful with your interpretation of the title but it's literally just referring to the volcano Angus XIII jumped into. 😂😂😂 Chris's writing for Gloryhammer is highly inspired by the intermediate-level English of Rhapsody's classic lyrics, and so we end up with delicious camptastic lines like "into the battle the heroes make fight".
Bumped into your channel because Glory Hammer smashed into my ears looking for live music acts to attend. Until a week ago I'd never heard of them. Perhaps few will, as it is an uphill battle to storm the battlements of popular music. Glory Hammer reminds me of the thematic album by Yes keyboard player Rick Wakeman, who in 1973 created the concept album "The Six Wives of Henry the Eighth" and in 1975 "King Arthur and the Knights of the Roundtable". Back then these musical efforts while not wasted, weren't exactly popular. Glory Hammer and Rick Wakemam are of disimilar. However they share classical music and keyboard stylings and the fascination with fantastic historical mythology and gallantry. The music is performatively challenging, and the execution of it is something like a circus act. The machismo of these genres needs to be mocked in my opinion. The satirical control content is a delicate balance to achieve. This is in effect the Month Python of the Lord of the Rings. The heroes and villains can all be seem as fundamentally flawed and insecure human beings and metaphorically portray the drama of everyday life. Allegory. Humor. Musical form.
Power metal is one of those genres where I love a handful of what I consider the best bands in the genre (Helloween and Blind Guardian especially), but the rest becomes parody very quickly. Still, even at its worst it's usually fun just due to the speed and melodicism and intricacy of the instrumental work. This is too much towards the parodic/cheesy side to me without enough inspiration in its musical ideas to hold my attention strongly.
Dio and Judas Priest (and Iron Maiden) were just classic heavy metal. They were the biggest inspirations for power metal. Most power metal took the melodicism and "epic" quality of those bands and increased the speed and aggression due to the influences of thrash, but without adopting thrash's rhythmic-dominated focus. They basically kept the "theatricality" of classic metal.
Gloryhammer is gloriously cheesy. Its so in the cheese that it feels like parody, very similar to Manowar
It is a parody
@@СергійТкач-с1и thanks I wasnt sure
I have no idea when I would listen to this
Dishes, driving, dying for the eternal glory of dundee lol
This song is the last song of the album and I feel is better consumed as part of a whole album listen. I feel in context it hits better, but that’s a 40ish minute ask.
@@maximillianhallett3055 i actually went even further and did the entire discography in one go (needed some music Yesterday at work). It hits so hard
This actually made me sit here thinking for a few minutes on why I was rushing to the skip button so much. Because I do love epic camp in my metal and I have the many, many times I yelled "Bal Sagoth" in your comments section to prove it, and Bal Sagoth are not only where restraint goes to die but also very much an influence in this song's darker passages. Yet, I really *can't stand this*. And I think I figured why: there's a slight air of cynicism about this, a certain overeagerness to tell you that they are, in fact, a parody and don«t you ever forget it. And to me that falls flatter than bands like Rhapsody who fall into the trap of actually taking themselves way to seriously, or Bal Sagoth who know what they're creating is very silly and will smile and laugh with you, while still being really passionate about what they do. And so, at their best, they will carry you through fantastic mystical worlds and it's all very intentionally over the top and their booklets have 32 pages worth of actual short stories but it never lacks for passion in that storytelling within the actual music. That and the fact that the metal and the orchestrations are a part of the same ensemble and composed from scratch to be that way.
This sounds like someone who loves wrestling "ironically" and just can't stop telling you how in on the joke and how it's all fake and predetermined and has to put some sort of * in every conversation to remind you that he's in on the joke. Whereas Bal Sagoth are forming a backyard wrestling thing and having genuine fun with it. Which is why I can't really get the epic feel here. It's self aware to the point of not being self aware.
Kinda like when people intentionally attempt to make a cult classic? The self-awareness ruins the heart of the art?
@@CriticalReactions Something along those lines, yes. When you coat your genuine love for something silly or kitsch in so many layers of ironic appreciation, at some point you lose the ability to enjoy the kitsch thing for what it is or engage with it on its own merits.
It's basically meant to be an 'epic ending' but also still belong to Gloryhammer. But ye the humor isn't for everyone.